William Wolstenholme

The blind Englishorganist, composer and improviser William Wolstenholme was born in Blackburn on 24 February 1865. He studied at the Worcester College for the Blind where his teachers included William Done and Edward Elgar, and then studied music at Oxford.

He was organist at St Paul's Blackburn and then at a series of London churches. His music includes chamber works, songs, orchestral works and organ pieces.